Word: indianness
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...Muslim. Indeed, in a conversation with me Wednesday night, Oppenheim asked me the difference between the Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Islamic Society. Arab is an ethnicity, Islam a religion. Members of Islam come from many different ethnic and national groups such as African, Indonesian, American, Indian etc. The Arab world only constitutes 18-20 percent of the world's Muslims...
...Japanese Foreign Minister "extremely concerned." To be sure, there was some justification for the anxiety. It's difficult to dissuade India and Pakistan from testing nukes in each other's backyards if the U.S. won't promise to end testing. "There is a collective sigh of relief in Indian government circles," says Bharat Karnad of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. "Jesse Helms [who, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the opposition] has taken India off the hook...
Mehta, an Indian-born Canadian director, has yet again challenged India's political conservatives. Unlike Fire, which directly criticizes India's societal hypocrisy, Earth shifts a fair amount of the blame onto the ignorance of the paternalistic British imperialists, who ended up causing one of the 20th century's bloodiest ethnic wars in their attempt to control the fate of the Indian people and their government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful...
...Parsi faith, which maintains her family neutral as the violence between Hindus and Muslims escalates. Shanta's suitors, originally friends, begin to divide along religious lines as news of genocidal bloodshed trickles in from the surrounding areas. As Lahore itself begins the tumultuous transition from a former Indian city to its current status as the capitol of Pakistan, a variety of the characters' dispositions also change. The transformation of "Ice Candy Man" is the most dramatic, as he goes from being the reasonable peacemaker among the group to the most extreme example of religious hatred. Shanta falls in love with...
...Ranch has opened a 61,000-sq.-ft. day spa--the largest in the country--at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino. Soak and get an underwater massage in a private pool filled with flowers, or stay dry and pick one of the 18 other options, like the Balinese or Indian oil rubs. For the piece de resistance, visitors soon will be able to steam and swathe themselves in mud in a room where fiber-optic cable replicates the night sky. A soft rain from the fake night dome washes them clean...